The following location names are the current location name in the official language of the current nation. If applicable, I use a common anglicized name but otherwise transliterate according to the American Library of Congress and provide the Cyrillic in parentheses.
In 1897 a farmer found this plate with biblical scenes while plowing a field along the Kama River near the village of Grigorovskoe (Григоровское). Grigorovskoe was in the Solikamskii County (Соликамский Уезд) of the Perm Governorate (Пермская Губерния) of the Russian Empire. In 1898 the Perm Scientific Archival Commission informed the Imperial Archaeological Commission about the plate and later sent it to Saint Petersburg. In 1899 the Archaeological Commission transferred the plate to the Imperial Hermitage Museum. The plate remains in the collection of the renamed State Hermitage Museum today. The number is ω-154.
In the early twentieth century the village of Grigorovskoe sat just south of the village of Grigorova (Григорова) on the right bank of the Kama River. Only Grigorova remains. The village is in the Solikamskii District (Соликамский Район), Perm Province/Krai (Пермский Край), Russian Federation.
*Grigorovskoe should not to be confused with Grigor’evskoe (Григорьевское) in the neighboring Nytvenskii District but also in Perm Krai.
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